The state board of agriculture is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a highway traffic safety center at Michigan state university.

     The state board of agriculture may provide suitable accommodations for class and demonstration rooms and such other facilities as may be necessary for research and the study of highway traffic safety problems and for the teaching of courses, the distribution of information and the conducting of demonstration programs relating to highway traffic safety wherever necessary.

     The state board of agriculture may employ for the center, and may assign thereto, such professors, instructors, tutors, demonstrators and such other persons as from time to time may be considered necessary and may furnish all necessary apparatus and appliances for research and the study of highway traffic safety problems and for the teaching of courses related thereto, including extension courses and demonstrations, and may prescribe and regulate the courses offered and may make such rules and regulations for the operation of the center as may be necessary.

     There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this act, and the state board of agriculture may utilize for the purposes of this act any loans, donations or gifts of material or money as may be made available to it.